Chinchaladze, L. The Georgian Tradition of Respect for Women (K'alisadmi p'at'ivistsemis kartuli t'raditsia). Series: Tradition and Modernity, No. 26, 1990. In Georgian.

ჩინჩალაძე, ლილია. ქალისადმი პატივისცემის ქართული ტრადიცია. საქართველოს სსრ მეცნიერებათა აკადემია, სოციალურ-კულტურულ ტრადიციათა პრობლემების სამეცნიერო-საკოორდინაციო ცენტრი. სერია: ტრადიცია და თანამედროვეობა, № 26.
თბილისი : მეცნიერება, 1990. 54 გვერდი.
რბილი ყდა, სკრეპებით შეკრული, 21 სმ. ტირაჟი 15 000 ც.
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Chinchaladze, Lilia. The Georgian Tradition of Respect for Women. Series: Tradition and Modernity, No. 26. Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR, Scientific Coordination Center for Problems of Social and Cultural Traditions.
Tbilisi: Metsniereba, 1990. 54 pp.
Paper wrappers, stapled, 21 cm. Print run 15,000 copies.
Wrappers: Very good: brown stain at the lower corner of the rear wrapper, faint brown streaks on the inside of the front wrapper. Text block: Very good: a few brown specks on the final leaves.

This short monograph was issued in 1990 by the Academy of Sciences of the Georgian SSR as number 26 in the series Tradition and Modernity, which was prepared by the Academy's scientific coordination center for the problems of social and cultural traditions. According to the publisher's abstract, the author examines the nature of the Georgian tradition of respect for women and its place in the life of the Georgian people, argues for its social necessity and moral justice, and analyses the objective conditions that kept the tradition strong over the centuries. A further section treats the varied forms in which it appears and links it to the demands of contemporary life. The introduction presents national traditions as essential to a people's cultural self-awareness and names respect for women alongside industriousness, sympathy in grief and joy, and patriotism as the features of Georgian tradition. It refers to a 1975 resolution of the Georgian Communist Party Central Committee on the struggle against harmful customs, and cites earlier literature, among it Dimitri Bakradze's book on Georgian women from 1891. The volume carries the Academy's series design: an allover ornament of roundels in pale blue on cream wrappers, with the title in black decorative Georgian lettering. It was printed in 15,000 copies at the Academy's own press in Tbilisi, in the last years of Soviet rule, and is a typical example of late Soviet Georgian social-science writing on national custom.